Sentences with phrase «different kind of tumor»

It's a primary brain cancer, which means that it originates directly from the brain, and it's not coming from a different kind of tumor located in another part of the body.

However, when the researchers switched on KRAS in the preclinical models, an entirely different kind of tumor formed, called angiosarcoma.

So if researchers think that an individual drug for, say, chronic myeloid leukemia might work against a different kind of tumor because the two illnesses share similar biological underpinnings, they have to conduct a whole new clinical trial and go through the approval process all over again for the second condition.

Not exact matches

«This approval will open the floodgates for these kinds of therapy to be used in many different leukemias, lymphomas, solid tumors, myelomas,» Dr. Prakash Satwani, a pediatric hematologist - oncologist at Columbia University Medical Center, told Business Insider.

Put simply, the pattern of microRNA genes turned on in one kind of tumor was entirely different from the pattern in another kind of tumor, and entirely different again from that seen in healthy cells.

Researchers leading the largest genomic tumor profiling effort of its kind say such studies are technically feasible in a broad population of adult and pediatric patients with many different types of cancer, and that some patients can benefit by receiving precision drugs targeted to their tumors» mutations or being enrolled in clinical trials.

The federal government is launching a very different kind of cancer study that will assign patients drugs based on what genes drive their tumors rather than the type.

Different types of tumors are formed by specific kinds of microbes.

There are many different kinds of headaches, some (like tension headaches and migraines) are fairly common, others (like sinus headaches or headaches caused by brain tumors) are relatively rare.

Did you know male dogs can get 3 different kinds of testicular tumors?